What's helped a lot is that the communication strategy seems to have consisted largely of a campaign of quiet reassurance by scientists. To the extent that politicians have become involved, it&#… (View Post)

Whilst watching your face mask being consumed by the flames. Hopefully not too long to go! (View Post)

The North East, including North Yorkshire as well, is a lot better. Again, barring a disastrous variant, the endgame of this pandemic is going to be played out in urban areas with high concentrations… (View Post)

Actually, on this subject it would be interesting to know in which areas these increases are truly of concern and in which they are not. If a remote rural area has 10 cases this week instead of 5 in … (View Post)

To a great extent I think we were unlucky with the Kent variant. You can argue that we would've had less chance of being unlucky if cases had been suppressed more effectively during the Autumn, … (View Post)